Thanks everyone for their comments Nevertheless still a little confused, apparently I do not see any patch applied, apparently only need add to debian/rules manually delete those files, am I right?
Regards 2008/8/5 George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Monday 04 August 2008 02:13:30 Ben Finney wrote: >> George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --cut-- >> Advice given here needs to be carefully examined for dogma, and a >> clear line needs to be maintained between "you should do this" and >> "this is one way to do it". > > I'm guessing here -- Have you ever thought that this could be an advice given > by a sponsor who prefers the things the way he asked and at the end he is > responsible to fix any potential breakages subsequently found ? Ever thought > he wants his life easier? So get back safely to the ground and forget about > any dogmas, except the ones found in debian policy. > >> I'm correcting the false implication that "put the changes in a series >> of patches in debian/patches and build depend on quilt" is somehow >> mandatory, or even that it's recommended practice. > > That flies directly in the face of DevRef 6.2.1 Best Packaging Practices. > Should I be in dount or I'm better not ;-) > >> In fact, anything that generates the Debian source format is fine, and >> there are perfectly valid ways that don't involve the use of "a series >> of patches in debian/patches and build depend on quilt". That's *one* >> way, but I disagree that it should be recommended without alternatives >> as Anibal's message did. > > Your alternative as currently being performed leads to deeply hidden and > silent changes to the upstream code and is proven as a very bad practice by > some recent security disasters. Note that 3.0 (git) will improve the > readability and changeset identification (since it brings more information > with the surce package itself, but still one should fight the history) but it > is not allowed/ready yet. Note, that I'm not against VCS, I'm against their > abusage and the distribution of unreadable and sometimes dangerous bits. > > -- > pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- William Vera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: 1024D/F5CC22A4 Fingerprint: 3E73 FA1F 5C57 6005 0439 4D75 1FD2 BF96 F5CC 22A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
